Games Engineering Project Part 1

Okay so this should have been done weeks ago and i had planned on doing it but work and university got in the way. So here is what has been going on for the last 6 weeks with our project.

I guess i should start by telling you what we have to do? Well our coursework is to design, implement and evaluate a simple prototype game using either XNA Games Studio or C++ and Irrlicht.  Pretty simple right?

For the Project i am working with Mark Miller [Marks Blog]. We have chosen to use C++ and Irrlicht to create a 3D game.

The first thing we done was try to come up with some player experience goals. From this exercise we decided that the main experience goal for our game is "the player to experience high intensity and mildly stressing situations". We also came up with a secondary experience goal which is "the player will experience short, quick paced rounds.The total number of rounds shall be limited and as such an entire game can be completed and a winner decided in a short time."

From this we began to look at a list of games which we felt met these player experience goals and tried to draw inspiration from them to come up with our game idea. There were two main sources which inspired us the most. The first inspiration came from Left 4 Dead. From this we particularly enjoyed the hunter gameplay mechanics and the unilateral gameplay aspects.

Left 4 Dead

We noticed a similarity between this and older playground games such as Tag and British Bull Dogs. After a short discussion we then decided to model a game based upon Bull Dogs rules and gameplay.

British Bull Dogs

Like i said at the top i did plan on writing this weeks ago so we have done so much more work at the time of writing this and some interesting developments have taken place but to keep this short and sweet (and to stop you getting bored!) I am going to end this here. So Thanks for reading and be sure to pass it along to your friends! Check back next week to see how we are getting on!

Part 2 - here
Part 3 - here

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